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Those two words were added in 1954, the result of pressure from the Knights of Columbus, who wanted to distinguish the US from the "godless communists" of the then Soviet Union. This is likely not news to most of us ... but then, we actually bother to look at the history of such things.

I note that the current voting level is 80% for keeping it to 16% against, which honestly doesn't surprise me.

I forgot to add that Billy Graham-cracker had a lot to do with adding the undergod, too. He was all buddy-buddy with Eisenhower. It may have been the first time the evangelicals and Cat-licks cooperated in this country.

In fact it was the Bishops of the Roman Catholic Church that put the thumb screws to Eisenhower. Eisenhower didn't care. It was Richard Nixon, VP, that was tight with Billy Graham, my friend. "Ike" was a WWII pragmatist.